From Bed to Bench: An Interview with Stephen Oesterle
Executive Summary
Stephen Oesterle's mandate as senior vice president, medicine and technology and chief medical officer at Medtronic is nothing less than to help Medtronic chart a future course as technology and clinical developments force further change on the medical device industry. And daunting as that project is, few people appear better equipped for the challenge than Oesterle, who is known for his ability to combine an analytic mind with a capacious imagination-a combination well suited to embracing all aspects of the nexus of medicine and technology. This includes the convergence of medical technology and biotechnology, an area in which Oesterle has done as much as anyone in the industry to make happen for device companies.
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